Naijaland griot Fubaraibi Anari Benstowe your poetry tastes like PalmWine.

 Nigeria is the land of abundance.  Apart from Kola nut and the legendary palm wine. Nigeria is gifted of riddles, proverbs, dialects, poetry, talents, people, song and dance. Nigeria is a world in one, Nigeria the land of plenty. The Iconic Chinua Achebe was born and bred in Naijaland. Internationally acclaimed African griot Soyinka was breast fed and raised in this land of plenty. If you throw a pebble into the main streets of Naijaland, you either hit poet, a lyricist, an artist, a filmmaker, a writer or at most a professor if not a griot. Today our poetic sling hit on the one hardworking, creatively modified, excellent fast rising poet, FUBARAIBI ANARI BENSTOWE-( Blurb by  Mbizo CHIRASHA)

Chitungwiza Poet Waison reVolutionizes Poetry of Defiance.

TINOTENDA WILSON WAISON is an internationally renowned Zimbabwean Poet. The rising Poet is determined, resilient and bold. Peoples Poet popularly famed as    LowlifeDiarist or simply Tynoe Wilson  is an  underground Pen-Slinger and a  brave guerrilla poet  chronicling peripheral gutter lifestyles in his  ramshackle  dormitory township of Chitungwiza  some few miles from the  penury shrunken  ,frail shadow and cartels gripped  Sunshine City  .The poet vividly capture , images of  wretchedness, sighs of hopelessness  ,  ragged ,rat hovel -living conditions as  lived  by his hunger beaten ghetto community sustaining  their bellies with one scanty meal a day, maybe  a crust of stale of bread and a gulp of   chlorine- deficient tap water, enduring years of water woes and typhoid bouts.  His poetry mirrors of a country   haunted by political decadence, drained by economic diarrhea, a people groaning under leadership discord and a society suffocating under the heavy stink of moral rot.  TINOTENDA WAISON is a well-traveled poet, international published, a fast-rising editor and literary arts projects Curator. AFRICA WRITERS CARAVAN presents to you beloved readers, a bold wordsmith, a guerrilla poet and a fast-rising Social Justice griot, TINOTENDA WILSON WAISON- (Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA).

Amanda Ranganawa is Our Zimbabwean Pen Princess.

AMANDA RANGANAWA is a highly spirited wordsmith and a rising poet in Zimbabwe. AMANDA carries with her the power of the voice and her talent- laced blood stream flow the wealth of artistry and her DNA is WORDS carved and glued into her bone and marrow during her sacred nine-month revolution in those holy terrains before her earth day. The higher power blessed the resilient bookaholic, mesmerizing workaholic and prolific wordsmith with the golden gift of resilience, goal getting and boldness. Her poetic vibe is not short of African pride, tragedies of life and confessional versifications. Her poetry renditions are mind blowing dramatic monologues, the reader is wowed as he or she imbibes the diligently concocted poetry beverage. The poet speaks to her inner self, speaks to crude and serene human within self. Her poem MY PAST IS OVER is somewhat confessional though thoroughly didactic, as she slings her pen with to teach, to counsel and to rebuke self and her contemporaries. A stream of consciousness. And again, the poem, MY PAST IS OVER is an intriguing historical reference in both presentation and meaning. It is a symbol of transfiguration, if not a ray of repentance. It is a biblical allusion. Remember the biblical story of Saul later Paul on his way to Damascus. CAPTIVATING. The Pen Princess winds up her page poetry performance by celebrating Joys of womanhood, life and African beauty. AFRICA WRITERS CARAVAN found her poesy fit to be profiled, featured and archived on their digital thicket for the benefit of Zimbabwean, African and global audience. Welcome African Pen Princess, AMANDA RANGANAWA to the CARAVAN of Versifiers, Wordsmith and Pens lingers- (Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA).

Ugandan Poet AWADIFO weaves a bold Verse for Africa.

Rising Ugandan Poet AWADIFO OLGA KILI weaves beautiful verse on Africa and Africaness. Her poetry cultivates a sense of belonging to Africanity famished minds crudely seduced by paradoxical rays of modernity, duped by the rainbow glow of cosmetic revolutions and raved by the new wave hot gossip media. The griot in her slings weaving needle to patch the broken hips of Africa, whose diamond is plundered by rotten to core corrupt political pundits and cartels stinking economic Tsars. Awadifo sings of the beautiful Africa of yesterday, Africa of today groaning in the grief of loss and the pain. And then Africa that can be restored, the poet is bold to point on the both tragedies and beauties of Africa of all our times. Kili is a pan Africanist, a and an optimist with a deep pit belly belief and fervent passion that African can be restored to its golden ages again, to be a war-less, peaceful, rich, beautiful and bold Africa. Awadifo is Currently a student of Law. An Award-winning Author A fast rising poet and Advocate of the girlchild. Awadifo is our Young Women representative and WOMAWORDS Associate in Uganda. Let the African Poetess Speak- (Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA)

Poetic Maestro RaVen Duchess fuses Kalimba Vibe with sweet eardrum rousing Urban Pop.

RAVEN DUCHESS  fuses  Kalimba vibe with a deep African cultural  Karanga hymn  , sweet ear drum rousing    urban pop and , a blood warming Afro Jazz beat.   In her rhythmic filled  and harmonica  laced Wakauya  Wega Mudzimu Wababa ,  paying    a befitting  tribute to her ancestry and rebukes male on corrupting and forcibly dominate  everything  spiritually. She reminds her conscious famished  audience that the  gift  of  spirituality  is serene and pure , hence cannot  be savaged  by barbaric  and corrupt habits  . The Poet , African culturist  and Afro-Jazz pays homage to her original roots  and her renditions are laced with passion , emotion  and African beat. The use of  Karanga Shona lyrics brings  the vibrant  songstress and her audience  to find each inside this vibrant  musical trance.  Raven songs  are plaques of  our identity as the songstress cum culturalist  reconnect with her departed kindred elders through heart thumbing Kalimba, blood raving urban pop , soul caressing Afro- jazz and wind  throttling percussion.  And we dance to stitches of this revered ,harmonized traditional anthem. Duchess  reminds the African to  be content with their African cultural dignity  . Her moral lesson is genuine , that spiritual talents are feminine as much as their masculine  . The Poet  and Jazzist  in  Raven Duchess  seeks to reverse  tragedies  hatched by modernity as her Kalimba vibe arouse bones and spirits to rise and heal the land yoked by  the bondage of  savagery  .Her scintillating  cultural renditions  takes Zimbabweans  and other Africans back to the sacred centuries  of legendary Chaminuka , mighty Gumboreshumba,  powerful Munhumutapa and  Nehoreka, Iron spirited Nyanda ,Tovela, Murenga and the raining making Njelele , revolutionary Tangwena and Chingaira, the land of Madzimbabwe.Raven Duchess is a renowned Afro Jazz singer , well travelled Poet vocalist  and has  done collaborative projects with musicians and artist  in Zimbabwe , Kenya , East Europe and United States. AFRICA WRITERS CARAVAN is excited to feature  Iconic Artist , renowned Singer , mesmerizing Jazzist and rising  Poet Raven  RAVEN DUCHESS -( Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA).  

Andrea Okoye, your resistance poetry is a clarion chant for WOMA-NITY .

ANDREA OKOYE pens heart – blowing woma-nity poetry , sharpened  quills of her verses jab unrepentant souls of the hard-hearted traditionalists and myth holders, always wielding  barbaric sickles to injure WOMA-NITY  with savagery and sand paper scratching cultural myth. PAINFUL. Her main verse in this set, MANGANJI  is a chant of defiance, it is bold wail of resistance, it is a clarion wail  for liberation. It is a song of a traumatized woma-nity seeking redemption and yearning for the respect of women pride. Andrea Okoye is an African sister comrade literary combatant fighting for a WOMA-NITY  revolutionary change  that  one day , the chauvinistic- savagery  dominated earth , see light and release woma-nity  from yokes of sexual bondage ,  rough harness of cultural savagery and  long knives of  barbarism. Her surrealist pieces brim with smacking truth  and are dense with reason . EPIC.  Okoye is a fast-rising Nigerian Poet, an advocate women freedom, a seasoned media corp and a devoted human rights Activist. AFRICA WRITERS CARAVAN is proud to chronicle the writings of devoted Poet, published Writer and human rights soldier ANDREA OKOYE- (Blurb by Mbizo CHIRASHA).